The J.M. Smucker Company scored a 100 on the 2023 Corporate Equality Index (CEI) from the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), a political stakeholder group. By complying with the HRC’s controversial demands, The J.M. Smucker Company increases the risk of dividing employees, alienating customers and harming shareholders. The company covers transgender-related medical costs for its employees and their children and provides specific sexual orientation and gender identity-based benefits. It also uses sex and gender ideology criteria in employee recruitment, vendor selection, marketing, and philanthropic support. The J.M. Smucker Company forces employees to undergo multiple ideological trainings and uses its reputation, corporate funds, and political influence to support controversial sex and gender ideologies, organizations, and legislation. The J.M. Smucker Company vets vendors according to LGBTQ policies, is part of the Global Alliance for Responsible Media, and does not provide its employees with protections against viewpoint discrimination. However, the company has not publicly fired employees, suppliers, or vendors based on political views or religious beliefs. The company is a corporate partner of the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) and donated to the Equality PAC. It supports the Equality Act and the Respect for Marriage Act, and it prohibits any donations to religiously affiliated charities. J.M. Smucker opposed various state and local legislation intended to protect parental rights, girls’ sports, bathroom facilities, and gendered spaces. The company is a member of the MCCA, indicating its focus on recruiting, retaining, and promoting employees based on race. For these reasons, The J.M. Smucker Company receives a High Risk rating.